8K8 Sic Bo — Every Bet's House Edge, Ranked Low to High

Sic bo puts three dice in a cage, shakes them, and settles a dozen or more different bet types off a single result. That range is the whole appeal and the whole trap: a table advertising sic bo can carry a 2.78% edge on one bet and a 30% edge on another, and the felt does not say which is which.

Wizardofodds.com’s figures below assume the Atlantic City paytable unless a bet is marked Macau, since the two rulesets pay several bets differently enough to change the edge by more than double.

How a round works

1. Three dice sit inside a sealed cage or an automated shaker.
2. Bets close, and the dealer or a mechanical shuffler resolves the shake.
3. The cage opens and the three numbers are read off together.
4. Every bet on the table settles against that same single result at once.

No die is drawn in sequence and nothing about the process can be influenced once the cage is sealed.

Every common bet, ranked low to high

Rank	Bet	House edge	Paytable
1	Small or Big	2.78%	Atlantic City / Macau
2	Any one number	7.87%	Standard (3.70% under Australian rules)
3	Total 7 or 14	9.72%	Atlantic City / Macau
4	Total 8 or 13	12.50%	Atlantic City / Macau
5	Total 10 or 11	12.50%	Atlantic City / Macau
6	Total 5 or 16	13.89%	Atlantic City (47.22% under Macau)
7	Any triple	13.89%	Atlantic City (30.56% under Macau)
8	Total 4 or 17	15.28%	Atlantic City (29.17% under Macau)
9	Specific triple	16.20%	Atlantic City (30.09% under Macau)
10	Two-dice combination	16.67%	Standard
11	Specific double (pair)	18.52%	Atlantic City (33.33% under Macau)
12	Total 9 or 12	18.98%	Atlantic City / Macau

Small and Big sit apart from everything else on this list: both lose automatically the moment any triple shows, which is the one rule that keeps their edge as low as 2.78% rather than a true coin flip.

Why the paytable matters more here than in most games

A bet’s odds of winning do not change between casinos; only the payout does, and payout is what the house edge actually measures. Total 4 or 17 wins with the same 2.8% probability everywhere, but Atlantic City’s payout puts its edge at 15.28% while Macau’s lower payout on the same bet pushes it to 29.17%. Reading a sic bo table’s own posted payouts before betting matters more here than on Small/Big, where the number barely moves between rulesets.

Sic bo next to Dragon Tiger

Dragon Tiger’s main bet settles in one card each rather than three dice, and its 3.73% edge sits between sic bo’s best and worst bets. Both games share a structural pattern: the simplest bet on the table is consistently the one with the lowest edge, and the bet with the biggest advertised payout is consistently the worst one to make.

At 8K8

8K8’s lobby carries Evolution’s logo among its studio logos, next to JILI, Pragmatic Play, CQ9, JDB and PG. Open the lobby and check Evolution’s row for a sic bo table’s own posted payouts before betting; the ranking above describes the bet types themselves, not which specific table 8K8 is running today.